Diagnostics.md

Azure SDK diagnostics

NOTE: Samples in this file apply only to packages that follow Azure SDK Design Guidelines. Names of such packages usually start with Azure.

Logging

Azure SDKs produce various log messages that include information about:

1. Requests and reponses
2. Authentication attempts
3. Retries

The simplest way to see the logs is to enable the console logging.

// Setup a listener to monitor logged events.
using AzureEventSourceListener listener = AzureEventSourceListener.CreateConsoleLogger();

Enabling content logging

By default only URI and headers are logged to enable content logging set the Diagnostics.IsLoggingContentEnabled client option:

SecretClientOptions options = new SecretClientOptions()
{
    Diagnostics =
    {
        IsLoggingContentEnabled = true
    }
};

Changing log level

The CreateConsoleLogger method has an optional parameter that specifies a minimum log level to display messages for.

using AzureEventSourceListener listener = AzureEventSourceListener.CreateConsoleLogger(EventLevel.Warning);

Logging redacted headers and query parameters

Some sensitive headers and query parameters are not logged by default and are displayed as "REDACTED", to include them in logs use the Diagnostics.LoggedHeaderNames and Diagnostics.LoggedQueryParameters client options.

SecretClientOptions options = new SecretClientOptions()
{
    Diagnostics =
    {
        LoggedHeaderNames = { "x-ms-request-id" },
        LoggedQueryParameters = { "api-version" }
    }
};

You can also disable redaction completely by adding a "*" to collections mentioned above.

SecretClientOptions options = new SecretClientOptions()
{
    Diagnostics =
    {
        LoggedHeaderNames = { "*" },
        LoggedQueryParameters = { "*" }
    }
};

ASP.NET Core applications

If your are using Azure SDK libraries in ASP.NET Core application consider using the Microsoft.Extensions.Azure package that provides integration with Microsoft.Extensions.Logging library. See Microsoft.Extensions.Azure readme for more details.

Custom logging callback

The AzureEventSourceListener class can also be used with a custom callback that allows log messages to be written to destination of your choice.

using AzureEventSourceListener listener = new AzureEventSourceListener(
    (e, message) => Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.Now} {message}"),
    level: EventLevel.Verbose);

Distributed tracing

Azure SDKs are instrumented for distributed tracing using ApplicationsInsights or OpenTelemetry.

ApplicationInsights with Azure Monitor

Application Insights, a feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals. Use it to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies, and includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do with your app

If you application already uses ApplicationInsights, automatic collection of Azure SDK traces is supported since version 2.12.0.

To setup ApplicationInsights tracking for your application follow the Start Monitoring Application guide.

OpenTelemetry with Azure Monitor, Zipkin and others

Follow the OpenTelemetry configuration guide to configure collecting distribute tracing event collection using the OpenTelemetry library.